Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast

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Experiment: Hiding power badges Power badges will be hidden on Warpcast for a week. We’re running this experiment because: 1. New user find it hard to get follows due to “power badge bias” 2. Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

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Once upon a time, a power badge was needed to show up in conversations. That's no longer the case - Warpcast uses machine learning to find low quality content and move it into "Show more" It's good for users because the machine learning models a lot more accurate than the power badge was.

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It doesn't make sense to keep showing the power badge if its not being used by Warpcast, which is why we want to test this change. Power badge data will still be available to Dune, Neynar etc while the experiment is running.

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If users are happy with the outcome, power badge might: 1. become a developer-only thing 2. be removed entirely we'll discuss this after the week is over. the change should be rolling out today.

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If you go with power badges removed entirely, please give a huge lead time on that since we gate all bounties posted by power badge users (or manual review) 🙏

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nooooooo i took pride in being labelled a “low effort caster” by not-a-bot while still holding a power badge 😭 where will my clout come from now

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👏 I don’t mind being a power user, but after seeing how a similar feature has been heavily diluted on the bird app, I really think that there is value in keeping it strictly for certain groups and perhaps requiring more strict requirements/controls around its implementation :)

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The power badge was fun at first as it seemed to be a legit outcome of being authentic & putting some time in here. Then it became a hindrance, creating two tribes & a strata society. Plus a great deal of resentment. Let’s bring genuine tribal connections back: around interests - whether they be tech, art, token abundance or whatever. More equality would make this place better. (And mechanisms to block the noise of the multi-speed posting bots I’ve been seeing lately- look in SuperRare channel for an example.)

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Would be great if there was a 'bot' badge. So many bots.

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I actually gave up on Warpcast because my content just felt invisible. Will see how this experiment pans out.

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@pfista created an issue from this cast in Linear

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As a new user... I think I put out genuine stuffs... no garbage.. but I get zip views and there's little conversation. Can we get a channels feed instead of having to click on each channel individually? I want to know what others are saying... quickly. 💖

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I think dev bots still need an identifier please.

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thank god . at last

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Will this have any effect on automod or any other channel moderation? Is the upshot that the algo will now do the sorting for everyone and this should work for channels as well?

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I'm hosting a meeting tomorrow with 200+ members to join Farcaster. Hopefully, this will be the push to encourage them all to join and start communicating. If you tend to make a dev badge, just do one that looks like a dev thing, e.g., 🆔️

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